Time to check stocking density.(Farming Life)

From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) | Date: October 8, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: NIGEL HILL, Greenmount Campus, College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise

If you applied for Extensification Payment under the standard scheme, now is the time to check your stocking density. Are you close to the 1.8 Livestock Units (LU)/Hectare limit? Or maybe you are bordering on the 1.4 LU/Hectare cut off point for the higher rate of payment? Or maybe you simply don't know. Now is the time to start ...

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